Classical mechanics/Bibliography
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- John R. Taylor (2005). Classical mechanics. University Science Books. ISBN 189138922X. A readable introduction at an undergraduate level.
- Richard Feynman (2007). Character of Physical Law, Republication of Random House 1994 ed. Penguin. ISBN 0141956119. A 1960 series of lectures for the BBC.
- Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands (1989). The Feynman Lectures on Physics, volume 1: Mainly mechanics radiation and heat. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-51003-0. An out-of-print but engaging introduction.
- Cornelius Lanczos (1986). The variational principles of mechanics, Reprint of the University of Toronto 4th edition of 1970. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0486650677. A very engaging discussion of classical mechanics from the Hamiltonian and especially the Lagrangian stances.
- Lev Davidovich Landau and Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz (1976). Mechanics, 3rd Edition. Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-08-021022-8. An extremely authoritative but advanced treatment first published in 1960.
- Vladimir Igorevich Arnolʹd (1989). Mathematical methods of classical mechanics, 2nd ed. Springer. ISBN 0387968903. An authoritative but very mathematical and complete discussion.